![]() ![]() As a video game junkie growing up, I couldn’t wait to get set up, so I begged my wife for an early anniversary/birthday/Christmas present and bought myself a Kickr. ![]() My uncle had shown me his Wahoo Kickr and Climb setup, and introduced me to Zwift. I averaged 5 rides and 100 miles per week. We went on to raise over $1 million dollars for The V Foundation that year!Ģ019 was when cycling really took off for me. Then in 2018 I did finally participate in the company bike ride, Boise ID to Salt Lake City UT. ![]() I joined the Shawnee Trails Cycling Club (2018 Bicycle Club of the Year) and learned how to ride in a group. (My friend Ryun is one of the co-founders of the company and I’m proud to own one of his bikes.) In 2017 I got a new job in Dallas, Texas and moved my family to where the wind never stops and temperatures reach 70 degrees in January. It’s a custom frame that I’ll bet you have never seen in person. In 2016 I bought my first road bike, a Razik Vortex. I thought I would never do anything that extreme again. It took us 2 days to ride up but only one day to ride down. When I was a Boy Scout our troop had ridden from Chico, California up to the north shore of Lake Tahoe (roughly 100 miles). I was excited to be invited by him to do it, only I hadn’t ridden a bike in years. Why would I do such a thing? Well, a friend of mine from work invited a bunch of work friends to ride from one side of the USA to the other in an effort to raise money for cancer research. I’m just a 50-year-old son of God who has a family, a job, a dog, a bicycle, and I landed myself in the Everesting Hall of Fame. I’m not a former pro athlete or extraordinarily gifted human, nor am I an adventure/adrenaline junky looking for a fix. No, I didn’t fly to Nepal and climb the actual mountain. Everest: 29,029’ (8,848m) of awe-inspiring, difficult, adventurous, dangerous climbing… some people have looked at Everest and thought climbing it is necessary. ![]()
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